Elastic Quotes

61 quotes by 57 authors

I tell myself that after four children my belly is already so stretched and flabby that I have to do origami to get my pants… — Ayelet Waldman
How fascinating to a child are words: the shapes, sounds, textures and mysterious meanings of words; the way words link together into elastic patterns called… — Joyce Carol Oates
Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is.… — Charles Edward Montague
The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well… — Havelock Ellis
For what wears out the life of mortal men? 'Tis that from change to change their being rolls; Tis that repeated shocks, again, again, Exhaust… — Matthew Arnold
Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely… — Ouida
I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it,… — Ang Lee
You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic. — Dylan Moran
The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. — Marcel Proust
The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There… — Barbra Streisand
Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty. — Romola Garai
to one whose elastic and vigorous thoughts keep pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not the labors and attitudes… — Henry David Thoreau
If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more… — Henry David Thoreau
He was not my boyfriend. On the other hand, he wasn't just a friend either. Instead, our relationship was elastic, stretching between those two extremes… — Sarah Dessen
Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is… — Julio Cortazar
For it was Saturday night, the best and bingiest glad-time of the week, one of the fifty-two holidays in the slow-turning Big Wheel of the… — Alan Sillitoe
There were two now where they had been three. David's death had dismantled the triangle, and an enclosed space was now open. Two points are… — Kate Morton
I believe that all novels, ... deal with character, and that it is to express character â€“ not to preach doctrines, sing songs, or celebrate… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of… — Charles Yu

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